LOOP CURRENTS AND HURRICANES

摘要

Deepwater drillers in the Gulf of Mexico have to contend with many issues-rig availability,lease expirations,opaque subsalt seismic images,and stunning inflation in service costs.If those challenges aren't enough,Mother Nature also throws in such twists as hurricanes and loop currents to bedevil operators."Loop currents have affected us more than we would have thought possible a couple of years ago," says Dar-rell Hollek,vice president,southern region and Gulf of Mexico,for Oklahoma City-based Kerr-McGee Corp."And more recently,hurricanes have been a problem."